Posts within the Tutorials category

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Testing your Node.js application with tape

In this tutorial I'll discover the features of tape combined with Sinon.js while writing unit tests for a simple Node.js application.

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Testing your Node.js application with AVA

In this tutorial I'll use AVA together with Sinon.js to test my Node.js application and summarize the good and the bad parts that come with it.

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Progressive Web Apps with Angular CLI

One of the buzzwords of Google nowadays is Progressive Web Apps or shortly PWA's. In this tutorial we'll learn what progressive webapps exactly are. Additionally we'll see how we can use them and how we can integrate it with Angular and Angular CLI.

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Generating documentation for your REST API with Spring REST Docs

When writing integration tests for your Spring application, Spring REST Docs might be useful to automatically generate examples for your documentation.

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Generating documentation for your REST API with Spring and Swagger

With Springfox, we can generate documentation for REST APIs written in Spring. In this article, I'll use some Maven plugins to make this offline available.

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Using Apollo GraphQL with Vue

GraphQL is a new way to write your APIs, and with Apollo you can easily integrate it within your Vue.js applications. In this tutorial I'll show you how you can make queries and mutations within your Vue components.

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Routing with Vue

An advantage of Vue is that many additional modules are officially developed, such as state management with vuex and routing with the vue-router. In this tutorial I'll take a look at the Vue router.

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Getting started with Vue and AT UI

Vue is a progressive web framework, similar to Angular, React and others. In this tutorial I'll set up a simple Vue.js application using Vue CLI and AT UI. I'll also explore some basic concepts suchs as properties, certain directives, computed properties and so on.

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Using custom scalar types with GraphQL and Apollo

GraphQL comes with several types out-of-the-box, but in many cases you probably want to extend those with your own scalar types. In this tutorial we'll create our own ISO timestamp based scalar type with Node.js, GraphQL and Apollo.

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Writing a GraphQL API with Node.js, Express and Apollo

GraphQL nowadays is often seen as an alternative to REST, each with its own benefits. With Apollo, we can consume GraphQL APIs, but additionally to that, we can create GraphQL API's as well by using Node.js and Express. In this tutorial I'll explore the possibilities.

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